Denmark agreed on Friday to discuss the Arctic region with Washington, Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said, after his first phone call with the secretary of state from the administration of President Donald Trump,
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President Trump isn’t taking “no” for an answer on acquiring Greenland. Although the self-governing territory and its colonial authority, Denmark, insist the island isn’t for sale, Republicans in Congress are backing the plan to expand America’s boundaries northward.
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He views Mexico as a source of unwanted migration, drugs and Chinese goods, Canada as a liberal dystopia and Greenland as a weak link. Some of his remarks are bluster. The Gulf of Mexico, he says, should be renamed the Gulf of America.
Mr Trump spoke to Mette Frederiksen, the Danish premier, for 45 minutes last week. The White House has not commented on the call but Ms Frederiksen said she had emphasised that the vast Arctic island – an autonomous part of the kingdom of Denmark – was not for sale, while noting the US’s “big interest” in it.
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